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Signs of the Times
Photograph by
David Alan Harvey
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The Louise Family Restaurant looks out on Lenox Avenue, renamed Malcolm X Boulevard. Brownstones across the street were built when Harlem was a mostly white suburb connected to lower Manhattan by elevated trains. Early in the 1900s vacancies led real estate developers to market housing to the city’s African Americans, and whites fled. Harlem became the “Negro capital of America,” drawing blacks from the Deep South and elsewhere.
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Camera:
Leica M6
Film Type:
Fujichrome Velvia 50
Lens:
35mm f/1.2
Speed and F-Stop:
1/250 @ f/8
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Weather Conditions:
Slightly hazy
Time of Day:
Noonish
Lighting Techniques:
Natural light
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Special Equipment or Comments:
I exposed for the white shirt the boy is wearing, letting the shadows go black for maximum impact.
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